I live in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and my goal as a contributor to Find a Grave is to help preserve grave stones for their historic, artistic, and genealogical value. Locally, and when traveling, I seek out and photograph the at-risk, almost illegible, unusual, oldest, deteriorating, or possibly overlooked markers I encounter, as well as newer stones that "call" to me...or just interest me in some way. Reviewing published transcriptions and "readings" to add in burials missing from the Find a Grave database has helped tremendously when identifying stones that had been considered impossible to read.
Since 2015, I have visited more than 150 cemeteries, capturing images of the oldest surviving stones. Lately, I've been working on various cemeteries in Cortland County.
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Researching the surnames Banks - Breckenridge - Champney - Gee / Jay - Green - Henry - Hudson - Kreinheder - McCulley - Monzingo - Pellman - Robinson - Schooler ... and many more since 1983
+ members of Shaker communities in Kentucky (Pleasant Hill) and New York (Waterliet/Niskayuna/Colonie, New Lebanon, Groveland)
~Nancy
I live in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and my goal as a contributor to Find a Grave is to help preserve grave stones for their historic, artistic, and genealogical value. Locally, and when traveling, I seek out and photograph the at-risk, almost illegible, unusual, oldest, deteriorating, or possibly overlooked markers I encounter, as well as newer stones that "call" to me...or just interest me in some way. Reviewing published transcriptions and "readings" to add in burials missing from the Find a Grave database has helped tremendously when identifying stones that had been considered impossible to read.
Since 2015, I have visited more than 150 cemeteries, capturing images of the oldest surviving stones. Lately, I've been working on various cemeteries in Cortland County.
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Researching the surnames Banks - Breckenridge - Champney - Gee / Jay - Green - Henry - Hudson - Kreinheder - McCulley - Monzingo - Pellman - Robinson - Schooler ... and many more since 1983
+ members of Shaker communities in Kentucky (Pleasant Hill) and New York (Waterliet/Niskayuna/Colonie, New Lebanon, Groveland)
~Nancy
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